Comment & Opinion

As of June 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was paying to store $2.9 million of rotten “super cereal” and $10 million of fo...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania have been known as a cradle of industrialists, of quarterbacks and of robots. But for a period ...

This week, at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, U.S. Sen. David McCormick convened some of America’s top leaders, including President Trump, and ...

CHICAGO (TNS) — If we want to consider what’s possible for Ukraine, the people of Poland are living proof. They gained freedom from communist rule at ...

It often feels like the only predictable thing about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is that he’s unpredictable. At a NATO summit on Wednesday...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — As more and more Americans put their heads into the smiling noose of socialism, some of the politicians stringing them up are drop...

LONDON (TNS) — There’s a simple statistic that often stops people in their tracks. It is this: Reading for pleasure as a child is the factor that stud...

Modern politics in many quarters is more performance art than serious policy, a never-ending quest to generate votes rather than address substantive i...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The simi...

No state built America more than Pennsylvania. On the heels of our 250th year of independence, most think of how Pennsylvanians built the nation ideol...

Iran has broken the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, attacking Gulf shipping, refusing to grant IAEA access to nuclear sites, and stating it wil...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Every 50 years, it’s become traditional for the United States to celebrate the survival of its democracy for another half century, ...

A Texas woman simultaneously held full-time jobs with the state government and the City of Austin without disclosing the conflict to either employer, ...

Ask almost any adult about their first summer job, and they’ll remember it instantly. Usually with a smile on their face. Maybe you scooped ice cream ...

In 1776, 56 delegates came to Philadelphia and did something that had never been done before. They put their names on a declaration stating that peopl...

I’ve heard there were some pretty impressive fireworks displays (and other celebrations) in our area to mark our nation’s 250th birthday. I can hear t...

As children make their way through school, they are often reminded college is the path toward a successful career and stability. However, for many stu...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — What in the actual Stage 4 melanoma is going on around here? "Auntie, look at my tan lines!" my 16-year-old niece commanded after ...

Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image, and those GOP incumbents who’ve attempted to stand in his way or haven’t been exuberantly s...

With growing national attention on drinking water safety, many people are asking, “Is my water safe?” For residents of McKean County, that answer is r...